# Ashley McKnight > This field is required Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ashleymcknight I'm fluent in the latest UX trends and equipped with the background knowledge to create compelling experiences for small startups and large enterprise organizations. I have a Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction with over 15 years of experience in user experience design. I've led multiple projects and coordinated the work of designers around the globe across extremely large projects, ensuring consistency and standardization. From exploratory research, user requirements, prioritization, high level and detailed design documentation, I'm adept at all stages of the UX process. I enjoy working in cross functional teams and have a background in front end development making it easy to speak the language of development teams we take a product vision and make it a reality. ## Work Experience ### Lead Design Strategist @ Rockwell Automation Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Senior Product Designer @ Flywheel.io Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Sr UX Designer @ Globant Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, WA - Collaborate with product management & architecture to deliver a robust UX strategy, design, UI standards, and processes that ensure consistent implementation of final designs, and most importantly, positive outcomes for the client's customers. - Lead the design side of a SAFe train with seven implementation teams, guiding the work of six designers - Manage the UX implementation of the component library feeding the client's design system ### User Experience Designer @ Placements.io Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, WA Tackled day to day design decisions in code while maintaining a long term product design vision. - Increased information density and readability of a heavily used data grid - Redesigned reporting interface from a static HTML page to a dynamic single page app - Defined use cases and requirements and designed the workflow and UI for a feature enabling targeting sales a’la carte - Designed initial concepts around how to integrate ad sales by auction - Created infographics to describe the product’s function - Implemented features in Rails/React stack ### UX Lead @ Hewlett-Packard Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Seattle, WA Led the user experience initiative for a redesign of an enterprise monitoring and support web application. - Iterated on wireframes and comps spanning several screen widths to help drive conversations around project direction - Led team of three designers in creating new takes on application wide search - Developed a UX strategy around technologies and design architecture for enterprise support - Promoted use of corporate design system ### UX Consultant @ HP @ The Kohl Group Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Seattle UX designer for HP ENTERPRISE Support Center mobile app for iOS and Android. - Redesigned the app’s navigation and information architecture - Designed personalization features to reduce duplicate information entry - Designed the integration of systems monitoring functionality - Planned user research and created interactive prototypes - Created visual UI designs complying with corporate style guides - Implemented UI style with JavaScript and SASS ### UX Software Engineer @ Nintendo Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Redmond, WA Contributed to the design of consumer marketing sites, internal business web applications, and console application proposals. - Designed interactions and created wireframes for Nintendo 3DS port of Club Nintendo - Designed UI and interaction flows for new features on Club Nintendo and Nintendo.com - Created interaction models and wireframes for social integration into Nintendo 3DS games. - Customized look and feel for business intelligence dashboards - Designed visuals and interactions for a variety of internal applications - Planned and performed user research - Implemented UI on Java stack using JSTL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS ### UX Design Consultant @ The Kohl Group Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Remote Collaborating with stakeholders to determine requirements, I designed handheld interactions and workflows and delivered detailed wireframes and specifications for three Sprint phone applications: email, instant messaging, and visual voicemail. ### Interaction Designer @ University of Washington Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 | Seattle, WA Performed usability tests and customer interviews, produced screen flow diagrams, task flow diagrams, wireframes, specifications, and implemented the web front end with HTML, CSS, Perl, and JavaScript for a suite of web applications for UW campus use,. ### UI Designer @ MOD Systems Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Seattle, WA Designed media retail distribution software screens and workflows for web browsers, mobile devices, and kiosks. Produced wire frames, specifications, graphic assets, written user guides, installation manuals, and provisional patent documents relating to the various facets of the product. Developed application front end with HTML, CSS, ASP.net, and JavaScript. ### User Researcher @ Microsoft @ CompuCom Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Redmond Designed, conducted and analyzed usability studies for Surface (table). ## Education ### M. Sc. in Human computer Interaction Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 ### B. A. in Studio Art Georgia State University Jan 1997 – Jan 2001 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashmcknight - Portfolio: https://ashmc.carbonmade.com - GitHub: https://github.com/mcashley - Facebook: https://facebook.com/ashley.mcknight.940 - Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/users/6205350 --- Source: https://flows.cv/ashleymcknight JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ashleymcknight/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30